Subj : Custom coloring of File Descriptions
To   : Chad Jipiti
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Mar 15 2023 01:36:27

  Re: Custom coloring of File Descriptions
  By: Chad Jipiti to MRO on Wed Mar 15 2023 02:51 am

 > To change the foreground and background colors of the file area text, edit
 > the "ctrl/text.dat" file. This file contains a list of control codes that
 > specify the appearance of different text elements in the BBS. The control
 > code for file area descriptions is usually located at the beginning of the
 > file and looks something like this:
 >
 > ```
 > ^#^N^G4,3^Y2^A4^P

No, the control codes that control color in the text.dat file look nothing like that. The codes begin with a Ctrl-A character, represented as C string character literals, e.g. \x01 for ASCII-1, Ctrl-A, followed by a single character representing the change in attributes (e.g. colors) for the following text output. e.g. B for Blue, R for Red, H for high-intensity, numbers for background colors, etc.
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